Comments on: Effect of digoxin on NORMAL INDIVIDUAL ? http://www.abortoterapeutico.org/therapeutic-dose/effect-of-digoxin-on-normal-individual Wed, 12 May 2010 06:52:59 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Rhianna Returns http://www.abortoterapeutico.org/therapeutic-dose/effect-of-digoxin-on-normal-individual/comment-page-1#comment-1654 Rhianna Returns Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:24:59 +0000 http://www.abortoterapeutico.org/therapeutic-dose/effect-of-digoxin-on-normal-individual#comment-1654 1) Digoxin does not alter cardiac output in normal individuals. 2) It does cause significant increase in contractility.<br><b>References : </b><br>Cardiac Nurse 1) Digoxin does not alter cardiac output in normal individuals.

2) It does cause significant increase in contractility.
References :
Cardiac Nurse

]]> By: gangadharan nair http://www.abortoterapeutico.org/therapeutic-dose/effect-of-digoxin-on-normal-individual/comment-page-1#comment-1653 gangadharan nair Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:47:59 +0000 http://www.abortoterapeutico.org/therapeutic-dose/effect-of-digoxin-on-normal-individual#comment-1653 The main pharmacological effects of digoxin are on the heart. Extracardiac effects are responsible for many of the adverse effects. Its main cardiac effects are * A decrease of conduction of electrical impulses through the AV node, making it a commonly used antiarrhythmic agent in controlling the heart rate during atrial fibrillation or atrial flutter. * An increase of force of contraction via inhibition of the Na+/K+ ATPase pump. Charles Cullen admitted in 2003 to killing as many as 40 hospital patients with overdoses of heart medication–usually digoxin–at hospitals in New Jersey and Pennsylvania over his 16-year career as a nurse. On March 10, 2006 he was sentenced to 18 consecutive life sentences and is not eligible for parole.<br><b>References : </b><br>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digoxin http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/meds/a682301.html http://www.medicinenet.com/digoxin/article.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digoxin_toxicity The main pharmacological effects of digoxin are on the heart. Extracardiac effects are responsible for many of the adverse effects.
Its main cardiac effects are
* A decrease of conduction of electrical impulses through the AV node, making it a commonly used antiarrhythmic agent in controlling the heart rate during atrial fibrillation or atrial flutter.
* An increase of force of contraction via inhibition of the Na+/K+ ATPase pump.

Charles Cullen admitted in 2003 to killing as many as 40 hospital patients with overdoses of heart medication–usually digoxin–at hospitals in New Jersey and Pennsylvania over his 16-year career as a nurse. On March 10, 2006 he was sentenced to 18 consecutive life sentences and is not eligible for parole.
References :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digoxin
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/meds/a682301.html
http://www.medicinenet.com/digoxin/article.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digoxin_toxicity

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